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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. All of this new material requires some form of marketing organization, or better yet, organization and support from the marketing team.

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The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

The Effective Marketer

Based on a recent report on Marketing Technology Adoption for 2011 , the findings of their research shed some light on the challenges we face when it comes to marketing technology. Marketers as Technologists According to Forrester’s research, data driven marketers are divided about technology investments.

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Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Email Design Review Gallery Are you tired of what your marketing emails look like? Sure, our email marketing software has some canned templates but they are very bland.

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B2B Marketing Mix: Will Online, Social Tactics Lead?

Online Marketing Institute

I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic.

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Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard!

Marketing Insider Group

Hard to execute effectively without blowing through your whole marketing budget. Not everyone in B2B “buys&# that they each hold a stake in search – Sales/Marketing/IT/Execs,etc. You’ve explained it all before, maybe even 100 times. But the bottom line: search is really hard. Hard to explain.

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Upcoming Marketing Conferences « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

So here you go, this is the list of marketing events and marketing conferences coming up (US only) for the first half of 2011. Check them out, pick a couple and start planning! P.S.: I’ll be presenting at the upcoming The Power of eMarketing Conference, so if you plan on going to that one let me know so we can meetup.

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copywriting that sells: powerful copy is easier than you think

The Effective Marketer

Design and copy should be worked together. This is a key point for me because often times I write or edit copy then send it to the graphic designer who will insert it into some kind of layout he created. And often times the design needs to be changed because it doesn’t work with the copy. Understand the benefit of your benefit.